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R. O. TOOLE;

STEERING- APPARATUS. No. 282,805. Patented Aug. 7, 1883.

WITNESSES I INVENTOR ATTORNEYS.

' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

RIcHARn 0. TOOLE, OF PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERs Y.

STE ERING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N0..282,805, dated August 7,1883. Application filed December 8, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, RIoHARn O. TooLE, ofPerth Amboy, in the county of Middlesex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented a new and useful Improvement in Steering Apparatus for Vessels,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sideelevation of the same.

The object of this invention is to facilitate the steering of vessels.

With the steering-wheel shaft is connected, by a pair of gear-wheels,adrum to receive the rudder-chains, the said drum being placed upon abolt or shaft connected at one end with the rudder-wheel frame, and atthe other end with a bracket attached to the vessels deck, whereby thelabor of steering the. vessel will be greatly lessened, as will behereinafter fully described.

A represents the steering-wheel, the shaft B of which revolves inbearings in the frame 0, secured to the deck of the vessel in theordinary manner.

To the shaft B is attached a small gearwheel, D, the teeth of which meshinto the teeth of a large gear-wheel, E. The gearwheel E is attached toa shaft or bolt, F, one end of which revolves in a bearing in thecontrolled and operated by a single man with frame 0, and its other endrevolves in a bear- I ing in a frame or bracket, G, attached to the 3 5deck of the vessel in such aposition that space will be left for thesteering-wheel A between the said bracket G and the frame 0, as shown inFig. 2. The bolt or shaft F is secured in place by ahead upon one end,and a nut, H, and jam-nut I screwed upon its other end. If desired, thebolt or shaft F can be stationary, and the gear E can revolve upon it.

With the gear-wheel E is rigidly connected a drum, J, to which therudder-chains are de- 5 signed to be attached, and which has flangesformed around its ends to keep the rudderchains in place upon it.

WVith this construction the rudder can be 50 great ease, so that thelabor of steering the vessel will be greatly lightened.

Having thus fully described-my invention, what I claim as new,ancbdesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a steering apparatus, the combination, with the spurwheel E and drumJ, rigidly attached to one side thereof, of the shaft F, arranged inbearings G G, having a head at one end,a screw-thread at the other, andnuts H I, working on said screw-thread, as and for the purposespecified.

O. TOOLE.

RICHARD Witnesses:

' J AMES T. GRAHAM,

C. SEDGWIOK.

